Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp was down due to a massive global outage said by officials

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp is now working fine but yesterday these 3 social media giants were down for a while, it was a black day for these 3 because these apps were down for almost 2.5 hours, In justification of the problem, Facebook published a post where it blamed the “outage” on a server configuration change. Will discuss that in details,

Facebook and Instagram seem to be partially down for a few users around the world these days. whereas you’ll open each platform and a few services seem to been fixed up by its own, users are reporting problems with sending messages on messenger, posting to the feed on all Facebook products and accessing different features on Facebook.com, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Even Facebook-owned Oculus VR is experiencing problems associated with the outage.

Earlier within the day, WhatsApp perceived to be fine for several folks, however, users in the Republic of Paraguay, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, and more note that they began experiencing problems with sending messages because the afternoon went on.

DownDetector indicates that those in Brazil were experiencing the foremost severe outages.

Why Facebook was down

Facebook has posted a post where they have written:

Early today Facebook was down or unreachable for many of you for approximately 2.5 hours. This is the worst outage we’ve had in over four years, and we wanted to, first of all, apologize for it. We also wanted to provide much more technical detail on what happened and share one big lesson learned.

They also tweeted about the issue.

We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Many were saying that it’s a data breach or an attack but Facebook informed with tweet about that, it’s just outcome of a change in server config and they also confirm that it has nothing to do with DDoS attack, Change in server config is the only reason behind,

We’re focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack.

Facebooks Outage Affected Oculus

Since the Oculus platform is hosted on Facebook’s servers, it conjointly affected. Many clients were unable to install or download oculus Store apps. Multiplayer games using the free oculus networking system like Dead and Buried and also the Unspoken no longer functioned.

We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing and using Oculus. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience while we work through this.

Some users reported software package interpreting the connectivity as a setup issue. This left these users completely unable to use their Rift headset. It’s unclear however widespread this specific bug was, however, it’s regarding that it can happen at all. The Rift software package does work offline, therefore it ideally ought to work even with partial connectivity.

After a while, they updated that issue was resolved

Thank you for your patience while we worked to address issues related to accessing Oculus accounts. We are happy to report these issues have been successfully resolved. You should be able to enjoy VR again!

Instagram was down

Instagram is a social networking site where you can share photos – videos online. It also lets users take photos, apply filters to them and share those images in several ways, including through social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Instagram is accessible as an application for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Instagram is part of Facebook.

We’re aware of an issue impacting people’s access to Instagram right now. We know this is frustrating, and our team is hard at work to resolve this ASAP.